New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-24
UNDER PIXIES PEAR.
STRAY NOTES OF MEN AND MANNERS

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| COLORADO SPRINGS, Jan. 3.-This place ought 10
bathe paradise CT painters. The only reason lmagu-
able why it is not is that any artist who should dare
to transfer to canvas the color effects that as
common here the landscape OF brown fronts in
| New-YOrk would be set down as coior-bnd or his
work pronounced the outcome OF some acute cerebral
disorder. But 1t Is different when Que looks straight
at nature. 1t Is q positive sensuous pleasure here
merely have ones eyes openand to let the comb.
nations of coloring often strange-nearly werd-but
always harmonious, strike the pupils There is BIT
rocks the mountain side, just opposite the town.
which looks like one Of the palettes that artists
sometimes hang on their walls. because chance has
blended the pants into more perfect harmony than
their art could attain. There deep red rocks.
delicate pink rocks, yellow rocks, moss-green rocks
brown rocks In the background is the hazy blue of
the mountains, capped by the snow crown Of Pixies
Peak.
The Peak-such is it, familiar name in the neIghbor-
hood is one OF the factors Of existence at Colorado
Springs Its grandeur of the familiar and everyday
kind. Ii IS not jagged, tOrbidding. awe-nspIrDg
sublimty OF the MatteThOrn or he Eger type. 10
to rise to its 1400O feet without any effort, and
then to smile down eneouragngly on the town al its
foot. Tine Peak enters into the domestic lite oi every
family at the Springs. house is not well situated
that docs net command n view OF the Peak When
the innocentlooking little feecy clouds begin TO be
drawn in arornd its great round top. then look out
for a storm. When the Peak is clear then plan your
excursions and your picnics
Although the top OF Pixies Peak is IA 900 feet above
tide water. it is only 5000 feet above Colorado
Springs. There is little hill perhaps $50 feet HIGH
that rises out OF the plain just southeast OF the town.
This is Mt. Washington so called because its summit
il Just the height of the famous peak OF the White
Monrta 1t is this great altitude together with the
dryness OF the ar that makes Colorado Springs such
a favorrte sanitarium The situation OF the place is
unique. To the east the dreary fluctuations oil the
plains stretch un0rokrn thousand miles to the Mis-
RANG nj
Rockies. seemingly but stones throw from me town
10 the stranger the great feature OF the Landscape L.
of course, TIE mountains but the old inhabitants look
with kindly the plains and that they have
learned 20 love them. One soon comes To UNDERSTAND
their preference for there ia resfuness frtendi-
ness about the OF the plains that sootEes poh
Ihey saw that Mrs. Jackson Helen Hunt whose
home at Colorado Springs used to love above al
heart OF the mountains. Her grave is on the sloe of
Cheyenne Mountain. whence just such a view -
obtained Tourists come thither and carry away slips
OF kinn inneck. creeping mountain pant, wnen
Mrs Jackson specially loved. Among Der unpublished
yerses is little Ioem on Cheyenne Mountain.
IL il at the mouth OF a canon that Glen Eyre stands
Glen Eyrie Ia the home OF General William j. Palmer,
formerly president Of the Denver and Grsnde Kali
way who is of the oldest inhabitants OF the 81 rings
ana certainly the bestk known man in the place Glen
Eyre s Just behind coored rocks, IN Wild glen,
through VIII Oh flows a stream from the gorge above.
1t il rambling wooden structure. win Qua excursions
and towers popping up in unexpected PAGES. Within
are curioscs of al sorts that the General has picked
up in his travels ana brought back from the war. No
tourist TO Colorado Springs goes away without seeing
Glen Eyre: visitors freely admitted to the
grounds. The house ia empty now. Mrs. Paimers
health unfavoIably affected by the Colorado climate
The rarited air. which is so beneficial IN cases OF
pulmonary diseases, has sometimes tendency to
develop heart troubles Mrs Palmer Is spending the
S,atcr in England Nth her is Miss Alma Stretiel,
some o. whose TRANSACTIONS from e'ne are considefed
duer than st.s Brownings, and whose sister Mrs:
Alice Comyns Carr k.e-c h: her own work as well
BY her husbands Miss stretts va, .2ns guest Oh
MIS- Palmer Glen Eyrie.
IL IS singular the people one meets here No place
of it's size is more cosmopolitan. The disease that
drives people hither is respecter OF geograph-
ical boundaries. England sends n large con-
tingent New-York aud Boston well repre-
sented. Nothing is more sad than to see young
men, With lnburLed cheeks and all the outward signs
OF health, with ambitious just awakened and lite still
tair before them, condemned tn sacrhee their career
and their homes, and exiled 10 small Western town.
In many household here arc SORROWS that are almost
tragic. And yet often those who are in realty near
death look the healthiest. Ii is like dancing on
graye-ke the grin OF skeleton hear these poor
young fellows joke about their own condition Con
graduate inc, gentlemen, exclaimed one OF them the
other day to group OF his companions upon great
discovery"
ell, what Is it ~ exclaimed halt a dozen voices at
once.
Another well-deveoped cavity in my lett lung"
the answer, followed bv burst of Laughter from
tie others, each one OF whom was more or less
cd vahccd in consumption.
fhis continual presence OF suffering. however skill
fully hidden ID the great drawback 10 lite at tho
Springs Otherwise what could be more delightful
transparency and subtle exhilarati0r, with sky that
bright and smiling during ten months of the year.
and with q temperature that while Oscillating between
the greatest extremes, never seems TO entail tho
aiscomtorts OF either. Nobody does anything
here and vet every body always busy. People live
out Of doors-on horseback or in mountain wagons
excursions and picnics the rule OF the day. and
there are thousand interesting points to be visited
The most useful man the picncs Is the cook. I
speak OF vulgar menial, but OF type peculiar to
Western lite he . a gentleman OF manners as
polished your he dresses wel,as men in this
gion dress-and he is on terms OF perfect equality
with all the members OF the party. lie is one OF tho
features OF lite here but the ranch il his hone These
extraordinary cooks are usually Engshmen, OF good
family but younger sons sometimes younger sons OF
youu ger sons. Their fathers have nothing TO give
Them but yet too proud to allow sons OF theirs to
make living in trade. Accordingly the young men
are shipped Of to America TO SHIFT tor themselves
They drift out here and often glad enough to take
position to cook and do chores ranches Their
position Is anomalous. They sometimes the close
friends OF the ranchmcn who are often gentlemen.
and yet they expected to do the menial work of
tho ranches. A ranchman does not hesitate to throw
bis horses bride TO the gentleman, and tell him TO
AXE the horse to tho stable. And yet the name
blood is too blue for trade